Likud is planning to hold dozens of rallies in the coming days to encourage increased voter turnout in Likud strongholds, in light of concern that supporters will stay home on Election Day.
The latest opinion polls, especially the party’s own internal polls, have left campaign headquarters deeply worried about the March 23 election. Boasts about obtaining 40 Knesset seats have been forgotten. In closed conversations, people involved in the campaign admit that even 30 seats will be a good outcome.
The party believed that the COVID vaccination rollout would highlight all of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s advantages: an international leader with vision, connections and strategy who resolved the coronavirus crisis before any other country. Last week Netanyahu tried a new message – only he can bring in another 36 million vaccine doses and establish a vaccine factory here. But according to Likud polling, this message did not sink in; it has raised hackles and is going to be shelved. This week for example, the campaign made robocalls to potential Likud voters, and rather than mention the vaccine, it focused on the four normalization agreements with Arab countries.
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Those who are aware that Netanyahu is the cause of the thousands of deaths in Israel since Jan, will certainly not go out to vote. Hopefully most Israelis will be awake by then and stay home.